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The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption
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    The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption (English)
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    24 May 2013
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    The purpose of the paper is to provide rigorous versions of some conjectures which come from the works of \textit{E. Brunet} et al. [``Noisy traveling waves: effect of selection on genealogies '', Europhys. Lett. 76, No. 1, 1--7 (2006; \url{doi:10.1209/epl/i2006-10224-4}); ``Effect of selection on ancestry: an exactly soluble case and its phenomenological generalization'', Phys. Rev. E (3) 76, No. 4, 041104, 20 p. (2007; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041104})] and concerning the effect of natural selection on the genealogy of a population. In the present paper, the authors consider a system of particles which perform branching Brownian motion with negative drift and are killed upon reaching zero, in the near-critical regime where the total population stays roughly constant with approximately \(N\) particles. They focus on understanding the genealogy of a sample from the population after a large time. It is shown that the time to the most recent common ancestor of a sample behaves like \((\log)^3\). Moreover, the authors identify the limiting geometry of the coalescence tree of a sample, which (as shown in the paper) is governed by a coalescent process known as the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent.
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    branching Brownian motion
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    Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent
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    continuous-state branching processes
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